Lawyer: Narcy Novack should get 27 years, not life, for deaths of husband, mother-in-law

7:15 PM,
Dec. 10, 2012

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Narcy Novack should be spared a life sentence and sent to prison for only 27 years for the deaths of her husband and mother-in-law, Novack's lawyer said today in court papers.

Howard Tanner suggested that amount of time was still a "virtual death sentence" for the 56-year-old former stripper and would be sufficient to punish Novack even if she lived to serve the whole sentence.

"She would be released from prison an elderly woman with virtually no possessions or home," Tanner wrote in his sentencing memorandum to U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas. "Her future is in all respects bleak and ...